Newgrange and Knowth: Hanging Out in Ancient Irish Tombs

In the interest of wrapping up the summer trip to Ireland neatly, I have one more post regarding that trip.
We all spent one day poking around archaically old druid tombs. Knowth and Newgrange are both rather large burial mounds, and definitely on the must-see list for cool old shit in Ireland. You can [...]

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Howth: A Personal Adventure

Since I’m leaving again for Ireland in a few short days, I feel the need to wrap up the report of my last visit.
After a few days in the city, it was time for an adventure on my own on the outside. Howth is a favorite place of my friend Ronan, so he typed me [...]

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The Fine Art of Loitering

With another trip to Ireland this winter quickly coming over the horizon, my mind has been floating back to the first wonderful week I spent there in June, and so I figured I’m well overdue for another reminiscent post.
I more or less ran myself into into the ground when I was there. With only seven [...]

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Bent and Busy as Hell

There’s nothing like a good case of the bends to cramp your schedule. That’s what I get for starting new hobbies–24 hours in the hospital (seven of which were spent lying in an acrylic tube under 30 psi of pressure) and several days of exhaustion to follow. (And for the record, the scuba diving trip [...]

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This Warrants Explanation

Photo by Aoibhe O’Sullivan
So.
My first day running around the Dublin City Center was punctuated with a visit to this pub, called the Longstone. The decor was overall busy, but fairly aesthetically pleasing, in a corny kind of way. Aoibhe, Ronan, Liam and I shared a giant platter of greasy pub food, and I choked down [...]

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Of Cathedrals and Kells

Once the work week started, my friends had to go back to their real lives and work their 9-5’s, so I was left to my own devices during the day. Monday morning I rode the bus into the City Centre with Aoibhe, and after some brief suggestions and a cup of much-needed coffee, I found [...]

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Tara

The first full day I had in Ireland, Aoibhe drove Ronan and I up to Tara, a sacred and ancient monument that just looks like a bumpy field if you don’t know what it’s about (I suggest following the Wiki link; it’s interesting and worth knowing).
The visitor center at Tara is an old de-sanctified church [...]

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Pertaining to Pubs and People

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Originally uploaded by Starrah.
I hit the ground running, and never really stopped.
My friends met me at the airport and whisked me away to Aoibhe’s house where her sister Chiara had a barbecue underway. A shower and a burger did wonders for my disposition after such a long obnoxious journey. For the next few hours we [...]

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24 Hours in Transit and 45 Minutes in London

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Originally uploaded by Starrah.

So! I have returned to a stifling hot Ohio, with the memories of Ireland still lingering strong. Unfortunately, while I was there, the internet connection I had access to was too dodgy to upload my gigantic photos, not to mention I barely had a spare moment the whole trip. Thus, I’ll attempt [...]

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Chillin’ with Turtles

I finally got around to uploading the underwater photos I took in Hawaii with a disposable underwater camera. No zoom–I was really swimming this close to this turtle. There’s also some great ones of fish.
It was amazing to be this close to these animals. Swimming with the turtle was amazing–this was not a zoo, not [...]

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